IT Best Practices: To accommodate the increasing demands that data center growth places on Intel’s network, Intel IT is upgrading our data center network architecture to a combination of 10 GbE and 40 GbE connections. Existing 100 Mbps and 1 GbE connections no longer support Intel’s growing business requirements. Our new 10/40 GbE data center [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 82 – The use of mobile devices in the enterprise – and everywhere for that matter – has increased dramatically over the past several years. This is as true at Intel as anywhere. As the use of mobile devices increased at the company, so did the number of mobile applications written [See the full post…]
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IT Best Practices: In 2013 Intel IT launched a new social collaboration platform that combined professional networking and social capabilities with content coauthoring for business-focused collaboration. The new platform improves user experience, allows increased security levels, integrates with core business processes, and encourages employee participation. To increase employee adoption, we developed use cases and focused [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 81 – The explosion of the use of mobile devices in the workplace and the consumerization of IT present special challenges to the organization. Employees have high expectations for network support. It’s hard to imagine not having near-ubiquitous network access in the workplace. But it wasn’t really that long ago that [See the full post…]
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IT Best Practices: Until recently, Intel maintained multiple app stores and delivery platforms, resulting in inconsistent experience, quality, and support. Intel IT has developed an integrated enterprise app store, the Intel Software Market, which simplified employees’ ability to find, download, and launch apps from PCs and mobile devices. We initially explored purchasing a solution, but [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 80 – Advances in the SMAC stack – social, mobile, analytics, and cloud – have affected every part of the enterprise. Organizational security has been as challenged as any facet of a company. Organizations want to move more diverse data to more places, and more people need access via more portals [See the full post…]
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IT Best Practices: Episode 79 – The data center has evolved at an astonishing rate in recent years. Developments like widespread server virtualization, new applications with great performance requirements, and a forty percent annual growth in internet connection requirements pushed Intel IT to reassess its entire network architecture. One person doing that reassessment is Sanjay [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 78 – The SMAC stack is changing the nature of business. SMAC is Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud. Advances in these areas have allowed many operations in the enterprise to move to the cloud, and Software as a Service, or SaaS, has become a big part of that move – and [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Intel IT’s enterprise private cloud enables us to deploy a virtual machine in under 10 minutes, provide on-demand self-service to Intel users, and offer a rich set of services for software development. Providing an opportunity to innovate from within, our private cloud plays a significant role in advancing our progress to a [See the full post…]
IT Best Practices: Episode 77 – DCIM is Data Center Infrastructure Management. It’s the marriage of information technology and data center facility management. A DCIM solution looks to extend the traditional data center management function. It’s an area of great interest to Intel’s Paul Vaccaro, Data Center Architect with Intel’s IT Group. In this podcast [See the full post…]
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